Kow-Towing to the UN Human Rights Council: Here’s What It Really Looks Like
“Engagement” is such a windy word, as in: President Barack Obama’s policy of engagement at the United Nations Human Rights Council. It all sounds so abstract. What does that really mean?
Well, on Nov. 5, it became less abstract, when the Obama administration bellied up to the microphones in the chamber of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, to present America’s human rights record for review by the assembled eminences. Whatever amount of engagement the administration had engaged in, it did nothing to deter the likes of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, China and Libya from making use of their UN privileges to savage the United States. The UN makes video of these proceedings available for all the world to look in on. Despots can of course cull the contributions of their own envoys for broadcast back home — show-casing under UN auspices any propaganda that they and their chums wish to spread about America. And Americans, of course, can also look in on these videos, just in case they want to see what’s being done with the tax dollars spent on their behalf to help bankroll the UN and pay for the delegations the Obama administration sends to represent — and in this case, apologize for — America. But if you work for a living, at something other than following the UN… well, who has time to plod through hours of speechifying in some UN chamber in Geneva?
So, thank you to Anne Bayefsky, whose watchdog organization, www.eyeontheun.org , has put together a montage of top hits of the UN Human Rights Council’s Nov. 5 review of the United States. You can watch the entire compilation of highlights in just a couple of minutes, including the comments of Iran, North Korea, Cuba, China Libya, Qatar, Nicaragua, Egypt, etc. — trashing and vilifying America over human rights. The most interesting part of the show, however, is the U.S. delegation, telling this crowd what a pleasure and an honor it is for America to present itself for review, and thanking them for the experience. If you want to know what Obama’s policy of engagement at the UN really looks like, up close and graphic, this is a must-see video; your diplomats on the front lines, and your tax dollars at work. The U.S. presents itself for review by the UN Human Rights Council.
A good example of why the US should close down the U.N. and not participate. Also a good reason why the US should not rescue any people in the Balkans, Rwanda or Darfur. Let these people sort themselves out since they are so much better than us. Let’s respect their sovereignty and let them drive themselves right into ground without our providing videos their governments use to prop up their own regimes. The US should pull out of this world and take an entirely passive and sideline roll. We’re getting too much unhealthy attention and none of it or our foreign policy benefits America.
The UN should have gone away with the end of the Cold War, not that it was much use during the Cold War either. Today the UN is the greatest collection of Muslim and Black African dictators and religious fanatics and we really should not waste another dime on it, let alone expect it to do anything of value. It was one of those horrible progressive ideas that was bound to fail from the beginning that possibly, just possibly, had one moment of usefulness during the Korean War. And even that was a mistake since the Russians simply did not vote against UN participation in Korea. It’s time to end this dangerous and expensive progressive experiment, one that not only does nothing, but also costs lives because people around the world actually believe that it does something of value.
There’s an old saying to describe this:
Lie down with Hill-dog and Bo-dog, and wake up with fleas.
Never once has membership nor existence of the UN with the questionable exception of Korea served the national interests of the US. GET US OUT NOW!
There’s been more UN shootings in Haiti. More, is in reference to any other location the UN visits.
I wonder who will compile a record of UN human rights violations?
The hypocrisy and mendacity of this group is stunning…
It is life imitating George Orwell…
For once, we all got it right. The UN can do nothing without the surrender of US sovereignty. It is an hypocritcal charade , spouting humanist nonsense and substituting evil for good; and good for evil. Lets devote out time, energy and money to projects which benefit the USA. That means, in part, providing the UN with the opportunity to seek a meeting place and funding from some other political jurisdiction.
The UN Human Rights Council is a farce. The GOP needs to remove all discretionary funding from the United Nations.
you are right
the U.N. is a joke stop paying for it and it will go away
read the book the tower of bable it shows how bad for all is the stupid U.N.
The EU, UN, NATO, and the IMF, are past their best before dates. Are there any organizations that use acronyms that are still up to the challenges of today? I’m drawing a blank.
The floor is open for discussion.
I’m so glad YOU’re doing the hard work of watching the UN.
It makes me so sick, I get so angry.
I wish the new Reps would gut the UN funding by 90%, or no more than the lowest contributor on the UN SC (of all countries, not just veto wielding ones).
It is a direct line from the self-abasement of Obama’s bows to sending this cringing crowd of American lefties to the UN with a Kick Me sign on their rears. After the Tea Party is finished with the big corporations that support ever bigger government for the lucrative contracts they get, let’s hope they turn their fire on this useless talking shop. It is no more than an employment agency for the shiftless relatives of the thugs who enslave countries all over the world.